Among G-rated films released between 2006 and 2009 over 80 percent of characters depicted as having jobs were male.
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“I recently spoke at a university where a student told me it was such a shame that Nigerian men were physical abusers like the father character in my novel. I told him that I had recently read a novel called American Psycho, and that it was a shame that young Americans were serial murderers.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
BOY “Skin”
You can feel like a part of something if you’re part of the scene
You can make your life look pretty out a little ice and gin,
Wash off the make-up and prepare the aspirin
Well you can get out of this party dress but you can’t get out of this skin.
[…]
She asks,
“Should I dream you afraid
so that you are forced to save
yourself?Or should you ride colored horses
into the cutting edge of the sky
to knowthat we’re alive
we are alive.”
Side 1 of my sign for the #UAWOW rally today:http://bit.ly/J8oe1L h/t @redlightvoices for this powerful, important phrase. #fem2
#life motto
(Source: keepyourbsoutofmyuterus)
Grandmother says words are like that, sometimes one retrieves them from places that are forgotten, places that one has vowed never to revisit.
She talked about the women at her hair salon and the men she went out with. She sprinkled her everyday conversation with words like the noun “clitoris” and the verb “fuck”. I liked to listen to her. I liked the way she smiled to show a tooth that was chipped neatly, a perfected triangle missing at the edge. She always left before my new husband came home.
Like most poets, I don’t really know what my poems or the stuff of my poetry mean exactly. That’s not the point. It never was the point. I am aware of stepping into a force field or dream field of language, of sound. Each journey is different, just as the ocean or the sky is never the same from one day to another. I am engaged by the music, by the deep. And I go until the poem and I find each other. Sometimes I go by horseback.
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Thandiswa - Zabalaza
#FreedomDay #SouthAfrica
A lot of my life as a Black South African has to be quite rebellious. I’m lucky to be part of a generation that was able to see freedom in its own time. But it’s always a struggle to define myself as a Black person in South Africa, as a Black person on the continent, and as a Black person in the world. It’s not a very simple thing to do. I think it requires a bit of rebellion.
